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Sujith Dan Mammen

UST Global

Why to care

Look at me, am at my career peak;

I have it all, rest are bleak.

Just fight for me, am not so meek,

You hit me and I will break that cheek.

 

All the laws are just a fun;

For the rich, it's just a pun.

I don’t care, for I see the sun,

I have a job and I need to run.

 

I don’t read, it's all distress,

All in all it's full of stress.

Am not here just to impress,

Blasting my way, it’s hard to suppress.

 

Perfection is what I see in a mirror,

Rest of the world is just a horror.

Life's like a paper cut by a scissor,

Just by the choices that form an error.

 

Pothole on the road, check any pin code,

I shut my eyes like a Surinam toad.

Is there an action just that is owed?

All that I hear is it's meant to corrode.

 

Gas in the air, I wear a mask,

At my brains, I need to bask.

Just like things in a vacuum flask,

I don’t care if it's disagreeable task.

 

Why do I see kids beg on the street,

Just like rats under the scorching heat?

All just moving like its trick or treat,

While am comfy in my big car seat.

 

I may just have all that I need,

but how can I stop with all this greed?

I don’t see when the earth just bleed,

All that I need is for me to succeed.

 

I am thirsty with what I have,

Will I be content with more to have?

Hide my fear, greed is all I have,

Petty emotions I may not have.

 

Beautiful sights I may have lost,

Wandering lone like a ghost.

Profit for me, am ready to host

As my life goes from pillar to post.

 

Finding the faults, it’s all in others,

Am quick to judge even brothers.

Adaptive, I may change my colours,

I can be quick as the mudders.

 

I throw stones from my glass house,

Quirky enough like a louse.

I need to win even I chouse,

The evil in me waits to arouse.

 

Need more place to store my money,

Just like bees save all their honey.

At times I think my life is funny,

For all I care is to be just sunny.